Teresa Giudice and Luis Ruelas Recall Romance's Start on 2-Year Anniversary: Why They Waited '4 Months' to Have Sex

Mar. 15, 2025

(L) Luis Ruelas and Teresa Giudice.Photo: Charles Sykes/Bravo/NBCU Photo Bank/Getty

Teresa GiudiceandLuis “Louie” Ruelasare taking a walk down memory lane as they mark a special occasion.

During the Aug. 6 episode of Giudice’sTurning The Tablespodcast, the couple celebrated their two-year wedding anniversary and opened up about the early days of their romance.

In particular,The Real Housewives of New Jerseystar, 52, and the business man, 49, revealed that they decided to wait several months before getting intimate in the bedroom.

Sharing how they chose to focus on the “journey” rather than the “destination, Ruelas said, “When you and I first met and we spent a lot of time bonding, we didn’t get right into sex right away.”

“That wasn’t our thing,” he explained. “We waited a long time, which is so good and healthy for us. And I don’t know if people even know that, but we waited probably four or five months before we even rounded second base.”

Teresa Giudice and Luis “Louie” Ruelas.Monica Schipper/Getty

Monica Schipper/Getty

Though the two “wanted to be intimate with each other,” they had a good time prioritizing getting to know each other without sex.

Ruelas also noted that they both came with children and going sex-free allowed them too get “a lot of that stuff out of the way first.”

“I really got to understand relationship,” he explained. “And I really got to understand who you really were, where you really came from your values, that you learned from your parents, that you’ve carried over into our new life together.”

(L) Teresa Giudice and Luis Ruelas.Teresa Giudice Instagram

Elsewhere in the podcast episode, Giudice and Ruelas revealed that they also refrained from sleeping in the same bed until they bought a house together.

“We moved in probably 11 months after or 10 months after we bought the house, and we started we started our life here,” Giudice said to which Ruelas added, “That’s when we started sleeping [in the same bed].”

“That was something I really look forward to because we dated, right? But I really look forward to being with you at night and it was not just a sexual part, [it was] just being close to you,” he continued.

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The couple met in 2020 while vacationing separately on the Jersey Shore. They confirmed their relationship in November of that same year and went on to getengaged in October 2021.

On Aug. 6, 2022, the pairtied the knotduring a lavish affair that was filmed for a Bravo special. To celebrate their second anniversary this year, Giudice and Ruelas enjoyeda getaway to Ibiza.

Their anniversary comes ahead of the highly anticipatedRHONJreunion episode that will air Sunday, Aug. 11. The special was filmed at Rails Steakhouse in Towaco, N.J. on July 15 — and aptly titled"Off The Rails.”

Teresa Giudice.Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty

Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty

As a result of the drama between the fractured cast, theRHONJladies gathered in two separate rooms to discuss all the season 14 drama and fallout. The format isa departure from their typical formatwhich includesAndy Cohenmoderating. The reunion will feature the cast reflecting on the dramatic latest season and individualconfessionals that were reportedly recorded.

“You’ll see the truth,“Giudice exclusively told PEOPLE in Julyabout what fans may take away from it. “Everything I’ve been saying all along has been the truth. I don’t lie, I’m not fake. I don’t put fake storylines out there. I don’t hurt other people’s families.”

“If you’re a viewer, you’ve been with me a long time and you’ll see that,” Giudice continued. “But other people do that, and they do it for storylines. So I’m ready for the truth to be out there.”

source: people.com